KING 5 Media Group
Joel Knip is an experienced media professional with a career spanning over two decades in sports and news production. Since May 2004, Joel has served as a Sports & Digital Producer at KING 5 Media Group, where responsibilities include managing and updating sports-related content for the leading multi-media station in the market, as well as creating and editing video stories. Prior to this role, Joel worked at KDLT from 1999 to 2004, initially as News Director, overseeing the station's style and news content, and later as Executive News Producer, contributing to significant changes in the station’s overall presentation. Joel holds a degree from Washington State University - Edward R. Murrow College of Communication and studied at Bellevue College.
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KING 5 Media Group
KING 5 is a broadcast media company that covers a wide programming range for local audiences.It all began when then Channel 5 aired a historic high school football game, becoming the first television station in the Pacific Northwest. Eight months later, Dorothy Bullitt, a local business woman, bought the station and began its tradition oflocal programming. KING was the first station in the Northwest to telecast color, and to air the first live, two-continent, three-nation debate via Early Bird Satellite. KING 5 also aired an ambitious analysis and discussion of the Northwest’s energy resources and management called The Electrical Storm. This earned the station an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, one of broadcastings highest honors. In recent years, KING 5 again won the DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in Broadcast Journalism for the “Waste on the Water” an investigation into Washington State Ferry system in 2011. In 2014, the George Foster Peabody Award was awarded to KING 5 for its investigation of “Hanford’s Dirty Secrets.” In addition to local news, programs such as New Day Northwest hosted by Margaret Larson and Evening Magazine help KING 5 share local information about people, places, and events that make the Northwest special. It currently has a combined 30 million monthly page views for their online and digital platforms.KING 5’s community partners are non-profit organizations doing incredible work in medical research, social services, education, disease prevention, civic engagement, and more. With a combined 30 million monthly page views of their online and digital platforms, KING 5 has a clear vision for leading the broadcast local news industry into the future.KING 5 was founded in 1948 and based in Seattle, Washington, United States.